I’m afraid I haven’t read around the EU rules in detail. I should and I will. But not yet Lord, not yet.
But I was in a corporate Global HQ for a breakfast briefing and seminar on commercialising AI the other day. This is not who I am and I found the thing hilarious. The place was done up in distressed wood to look like a startup loft and looked like the set of a glossy US show about techbros. They didn’t have a HR manager but a global head of culture and humanity or some shit like that.
Anyway I digress. The room collectively lost its shit and gruntle at the EU “definition of AI” and lots of questions were asked about whether the EU was going to amend it quickly as AI development changed so quickly (is it? I see iterative improvements based on scale, investment, and resources).
Which is when you realise seemingly not a person in the room knows how law works and what it’s for. It no more defines what a thing is in reality than an academic paper does. It conceptualises how the law can interact with actions, people, rights etc… It claims regulatory control over a whole field whether that be data, or automation. If spicy autocomplete has a video avatar front end next week it won’t make a blind bit of difference to the law.
